April 30, 2010 by leap
The Falmouth Energy Week conference 2010 will bring together key speakers and delegates from industry, government, NGOs, academia and community leaders operating at a national, regional and local level. The conference is a forum at which progressive energy policy within the UK can be debated and explored.
Poster designed By George Jury, University College Falmouth BA(Hons) Graphic Design.
For more information please go to: www.exeter.ac.uk/few
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April 26, 2010 by leap
So, Earth Day was last week and Earth Day Network’s Acts of Green counter has reached almost 31.5million.
We’d like to restate one of our acts of green… in the past three years, since registering with Cool Earth we have protected 200 acres of rainforest in South America; offsetting around 910 tonnes of carbon.
Visit their website and see who else is contributing: www.coolearth.org
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April 22, 2010 by leap
Today is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The Earth Day Network said today that they hope to involve 1.5 billion people in 190 countries in activities hosted by 19,000 different organisations.
You can visit the Earth Day Network here and find out about activities going on near you and add your ‘act of green’ to the list that numbers 31 million and counting!: http://www.earthday.org/
Environment activism group Greenpeace has chosen to mark the day with the launch of a new campaign. They want to turn 3 million people into climate activists and have created a new video called Inspiring Action.
You can watch the video here:
You can also visit Greenpeace’s website here: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/
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April 21, 2010 by leap
Leap’s very own Graham Woodruff is the new candidate in Bishopston for the city council election this May in 2010.
The Green Party website says: “Graham is especially pleased to be representing the Greens in Bishopston, where Gloucester Road brings unique local diversity to the area instead of the ”clone town” sameness of so many places. He is actively campaigning to keep it that way.”
Good luck in May Graham!
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by leap
The interview with Martin Bailie yesterday has been regarded as a success and at least raises the profile of the ‘Challenge across the Duchy.
If you missed it, find it on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p007bq9b/Martin_Bailie_20_04_2010/
The Eco interview starts at around: 1:23.30
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April 20, 2010 by leap
I will be on Martin Bailie’s show this afternoon from 1630hrs.
I’ll be talking about the whole project, The Eco Design Awards and especially the great work that the teachers involved have done and the step change it has brought to so many schools around the Duchy.
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April 19, 2010 by leap
An eco hotel in Copenhagen has started a new scheme today that will hopefully reduce the company’s carbon footprint, promote fitness amongst its residents and fill their stomachs for free.
Any guest of the Crowne Plaza Hotel that cycles for about 15mins and generates 10W of electricity on specially prepared exercise bikes, will recieve a meal voucher to the value of $36. That equates to being paid almost £95 per hour!
Spokeswoman Frederikke Toemmergaard told the BBC News website. “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be the odd person who will cycle just to get a free meal, but I don’t think people will exploit the initiative overall,”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen.dk
The scheme will run for a year and if successful will be rolled out across all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK.
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April 14, 2010 by leap
As part of Volunteer Cornwall’s new website launch, Leap zero fee recipient Cornwall Time Bank has received its very own page.
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April 13, 2010 by leap
The retail sector has many smaller businesses that are not subject to Environmental Permitting regulations, so this new guidance should be of great value.
All sectors have pollution incidents. In the retail and wholesale sector the businesses that were mainly responsible for severe pollution incidents include garages, petrol stations, DIY stores, dairies, food wholesalers and supermarkets.
The sector caused 2-3 per cent of all severe pollution incidents for the period 2005 to 2007. SMEs caused 53 to 77 per cent of these, whereas companies with more than 250 employees caused 15 to 40 per cent. During this period the most frequent causes of severe pollution incidents were failures of unbunded storage tanks and unauthorised discharge or disposal.
Between 2005 and 2008, prosecutions and cautions to this sector were most frequently associated with contraventions of the Producer Responsibility (Packaging) Regulations, for causing pollution of controlled waters, and for keeping, treating or transferring waste without a waste management licence.
NetRegs guidance for retail and wholesale businesses will help you check if your retail or wholesale business is complying with environmental regulations. Find out what you need to do with your waste, what you must do if you sell portable batteries, how to deal with packaging, and how to avoid causing pollution.
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From April, for the first time, large non-energy intensive organisations, accounting for about 10 per cent of UK CO2 emissions, will be legally bound to monitor and report their emissions from energy use in preparation for carbon trading.
The scheme, known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, will also give people and businesses the opportunity to compare organisations’ efforts to combat climate change for the first time. A report by the Environment Agency suggests that the scheme could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 11.6million tonnes a year by 2020 – the equivalent to taking four million cars off the road.
The scheme will include household names such as Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, John Lewis, Barclays, HSBC, Hilton, Marriott, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Balfour Beatty. These businesses will be ranked according to reductions in energy use and improvements in energy efficiency alongside public sector organisations such as NHS trusts, local authorities and government departments.
For further information on the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme visit the Environment Agency web pages. Organisations affected by CRC can also contact the EA CRC helpdesk at crchelp@environment-agency.gov.uk.
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